Top aides of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan slammed and mocked a BBC reporter on Twitter accompanying British Prime Minister Theresa May on Jan. 28 over her messages saying there was “a lot of gold” in Turkish presidential Complex

Theresa May says that Turkey must uphold its international human rights obligations at a joint press conference with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. May was speaking from Erdoğan’s office in Ankara on Saturday after signing a £100m commitment with Turkey to build new fighter jets

Hollywood star Lindsay Lohan early on Jan. 28 shared an Instagram post from her visit to the residence of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and First Lady Emine Erdoğan, which was also accompanied by seven-year-old Syrian Baba al-Abed, who came to international attention with her tweets giving a tragic account of the war in Aleppo

Some advisors worked hard, probably spent a lot and what they could get was Lindsay Lohan.

The decision of the Supreme Court of Greece on Jan. 26 that rejected Turkey’s demand of the extradition of eight Turkish soldiers, who escaped to Greece on July 16, 2016 right after participating in the foiled coup attempt, will most likely start a new era of tension between Ankara and Athens.

More than 5,300 Turks have filed complaints before the European Court of Human Rights over their government’s purge following a failed coup last July, the president of the court said Thursday (26 January).

World-renowned Turkish pianist Fazıl Say has criticized the removal of his name from the new draft education curriculum, describing the decision as “discrimination” and motivated by issues unrelated to music.

Footage of Ahmet Türk, the ousted and jailed mayor of the southeastern province of Mardin, being brought to hospital in the eastern province of Elazığ has stirred debate among social media users and politicians due to accusations he was restrained in handcuffs despite his severe health condition.

Celebrities, athletes and TV figures have waded into the debate on charter amendments that will usher in a powerful presidency, turning to social media to publicly announce whether they are for or against the major changes to the country’s political system.

Get PDF: Miller, Faye. 2017. When Immersive Journalism Met Open Ethnography. Global Ethnographic. Faye Miller University of Canberra It’s a rare occasion when a large group of documentary enthusiasts, filmmakers, journalists, popular writers and academic researchers (including ethnographers) are brought together in the same room: an eclectic mix of people who share a common appreciation (or at least curiosity) for […]

Neanderthals were able to manipulate fire well before they came into contact with Homo sapiens. Starting fire, however, was an entirely different matter. David Williams

In the 1981 movie Quest for Fire, a group of Neanderthals struggles to keep a small ember burning while moving across a cold, bleak landscape. The meaning is clear: If the ember goes out, they will lose their ability to cook, stay warm, protect themselves from wolves—in short, to survive. The film also makes it obvious that these Neanderthals do not know how to make fire.

Anthropology News Features Hepner on Democracy in TurkeyTennessee TodayAnthropology associate professor Tricia Redeker Hepner recently discussed the issue of democracy in Turkey in the Inaugural column of the “Human Rights Monitor” for Anthropology News. Hepner, on behalf of the Committee for Human Rights (CfHR)

When the Lower East Side’s 155 Avenue C—known as C-Squat—was legalized, many of its squatters became homeowners of sorts. Konstantin Sergeyev

I was surprised when I first met the man nicknamed Bald Mike. I was told I should approach him with caution: He had a temper and could be paranoid. And so I did a double take when I was introduced to a tidy, older, white-haired man walking a sweet hound dog toward the basement of C-Squat, a famous house I was studying as an anthropologist in New York City from 2010 onward. I was expecting someone dirty, who maybe had face tattoos, a pit bull, and a nasty attitude. But Mike seemed truly happy to meet me, perhaps in part because he wanted my help with his project.

In the next week or so, many of us will celebrate the year of the rooster. The year of the monkey, which we are just saying good bye to, had a lot of stuff going on inside of it. But looking back at the anthropology end of things, it’s pretty clear that 2016 was not the year of the monkey, but of the mushroom.